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After five years, Corinthia appears in front of Daniel "Post" Jones on the single train platform in their tiny pocket of suburbia like an apparition. Soon she is gone again.
In another time, another Daniel Jones fills three raised beds with asparagus, planting - and panning - for a future beyond the war, when the reluctant master of Tallis Hall will come home.
Corinthia's restless travel lands her in trouble more dangerous than she bargained for, and more confining than village life ever was. Her only hope is Post Jones, armed with nothing more than a text message and the desire, for once, to do something bold. Post and Corinthia fight to return home to Wales; Daniel and John fight to keep their family from ruin. And at the centre of it all is Tallis Hall, the crumbling garden, and a few sprigs of long-lived asparagus.

Eddie Butler

Eddie Butler is that rare thing: a writer and a rugby player. It was at Pontypool that the former Cambridge Blue first rose to prominence, as a member of the most feared pack of forwards ever to play club rugby. He subsequently captained Wales, and went on the British Lions tour to New Zealand in 1983. After hanging up his boots, an equally successful career in broadcasting and journalism followed, as he became the BBC's voice of the Six Nations, presenting, commentating and reporting with sympathy, wit and insight. His rugby columns in The Observer and The Guardian are always eagerly anticipated and well received, combining as they do the lyricism of the rugby romantic with the pragmatism of the Pontypool number 8. He published The Greatest Welsh XV Ever with Gomer in 2011. Eddie Butler is also the author of the novel The Head of Gonzo Davies (Gomer, 2014) and the sequel Gonzo Davies Caught in Possession (Gomer, 2015).